Sentences with phrase «public war monuments»
You started out with a series of monochromatic portraits of soldiers, either in red or in black, followed by a series of predominantly black paintings concerned with public war monuments and symbols of power, followed by a series of abstract white paintings and finally the gray abstract paintings.
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Senior House Natural Resources Committee Republicans sent their own letter Wednesday to National Park Service Director Jonathan Jarvis to ask him to «take steps as necessary to keep and not destroy documents related to the decision this week to restrict public access» to open - air memorials and monuments in the Washington area, including those honoring veterans of multiple wars, Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King.
Leader: Fitzhugh Brundage, William B. Umstead Distinguished Professor; Department Chair, History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill NHC Fellow 1995 — 96 Teacher Leader: Kevin Levin, Civil War historian and former history teacher Confederate monuments are the most common form of monumental public art in the former states of the Confederacy.
For the documentary - style work titled Turbo Sculpture (2010 — 2013), Domanovic chronicles the history of a series of public monuments that sprung up across former Yugoslavia after its calamitous civil war (1991 — 2001).
Unlike war memorials, these public monuments don't refer to a common history of a specific site or occurrence; they are instead based on modern popular culture that knows no genius loci.
Likewise, the equestrian monument of World War I Field Marshal Douglas Haig (1928) by Alfred Frank Hardiman aroused one of the greatest responses ever to a public monument.
Saint - Gaudens received many significant commissions through his association with White, including his first major public work, a monument of Civil War hero David Farragut that stands in Madison Square Park, New York.
In addition, his many public sculptures include the Los Angeles, a monument Tower of Peace, 1966, which protested the Vietnam War, and his more recent Joie de Vivre, 1998 for Zuccotti Park, in lower Manhattan.